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long, the 2nd a little longer than the 1st; the base in a very short 

 raised channel. 



Thorax. Pronotum long, trapezoidal ; on the 1st third a slight 

 swelling ; the centre with a slightly raised line ; hinder angles raised, 

 with a strong depression within them running out on the posterior 

 margin. Scutellwm narrow, triangular, the apex rounded. Elytra 

 not nearly so long as the abdomen ; Clavus and Corium transparent ; 

 nerves opaque; the posterior margin of the Gorium concave, very 

 oblique, forming with the anterior margin a long point ; Membrane 

 and nerves transparent, the latter numerous, very fine, mostly 

 straight, arising from a basal point, but leaving a large cell at the 

 inner basal angle. Sternum with a wide, shallow rostral channel. 

 Legs slender, almost smooth, 3rd pair longest; ihig Jis gradually a little 

 thicker to the apex. 



Abdomen long, narrow, above flat or slightly convex ; the last 

 segment in the $ subquadrate ; in ? narrowed behind ; Connexivum 

 broad, of equal width throughout, reflexed, recurved. Underside 

 semi- cylindrical ; the last segment, in $ , roundly cut out in the 

 centre, in ? angularly arched. Genital segments obtusely acuminate; 

 above, in $ two are visible, in $ three ; on the underside in $ , the 

 3rd projects far beyond the 2nd, of which only the angular points 

 are seen at the sides ; in ? the 3rd is long, small, cylindrical, the 

 points of the 2nd only being seen at its base. 



Species 1. CHOROSOMA SCHILLING!. 



EHOPALUS SCHILLINGII (Schvmm.), Schill. Beitr. 55, 7 (1829) ; H. Schf. 



Wauz. iv, 74, t. 131, fig. 402 



(1839). 



CHOROSOMA ARTJNDINIS, Curt. B. E. vii, pi. 297 (1830). 

 MYRMUS SCHILLINGII, Burm. Handb. ii, 312, 2 (1835). 

 CHOROSOMA Am. et Serv. Hem. 231, 1 (1843) ; Stal, K. Vet. 



Akad. Forh. 207, 1 (1862). 



EHOPALUS ARUNDINIS, Kolen. Mel. Ent. ii, 57, 17 (1845). 

 CHOROSOMA SCHILLINGI, Fieb. Europ. Hem. 227 (1861). 



Ochreous, finely punctured and haired. 



Head pale. Antenna; the first 2 joints covered with very short, 

 appressed hairs. Eyes brown. Ocelli red. Rostrum ochreous, with 

 a central line and the tip brown. 



Thorax. Pronotum finely punctured, the disk light gray. Scutellum 



